Hmm. Maybe I should turn historical focus back on then. My last 4 games I've gone facist, but everything just sort of falls apart because Germany makes some terrible decisions and ends up at war with the Soviets while France is still around.

En route to Australia, early humans would have encountered a motley assortment of other roving hominin species, including an unknown human relative who has now been shown to have contributed around 4% to the Indigenous Australian genome. Previously, scientists have discovered that prehistoric couplings have left all non-Africans today carrying 1-6% of Neanderthal DNA.

Willerslev said the latest findings added to the view that Neanderthals and other now extinct hominins, traditionally portrayed as low-browed prehistoric thugs, were “in reality not particularly different” from our own ancestors.

That's kinda of the case with ARK or Rust though. They've been played and enjoyed by so many people over the last several years that calling them "early access" is kind of a misnomer. Sure, they haven't technically had a full release, but they were entirely playable long ago and have grown immensely since.

So it seems like this story doesn't really connect to complaints of early access games scrounging easy cash off people before they're finished. At least not IMO.

Right? You can choose your pace. Anywhere from a slow struggle to survive to near instantaneous success, and everything in between. Not just for taming but for practically everything. There are servers that cater to it all.

The idea of the Dothraki transporting intact statues that size across thousands of miles is equally difficult to believe. I get that it'd be a horde of slaves actually doing it, but the khalasar would have to move so slowly I'd imagine the Khal leading it to just get bored and go raid something else instead.

And Victarion mutters about how no man is so accursed as the kinslayer about a dozen times. Granted he's not the sharpest tool in the shed, but still, I don't think most Ironborn are just OK with people murdering their own blood.